Wax-heater and thread-waxer for sewing-machines



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

S. A. ALLEN.

WAX HEATER AND THREAD WAXEE EOE SEWING MACHINES. No. 370,440. PatentedSept. 27, 1887.

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SIDNEY A. ALLEN, OF AUBURN, MAINE.

WAX- HEATER AND THRE'AD-WAXER FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,440, datedSeptember 27, 1887.

Application filed May 9, 1887. Serial No. 237,602. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY A. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Auburn, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine,have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Wax-Heaters andThread W'axers for Sewing-Machines; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to that class of waxheating and thread-waxingattachments for sewing-machines wherein a rotating horn is provided witha combination of devices or attachments which are particularly adaptedto the Gordon-McKay sewingmachines, but which is also applicable tosewing-machines of the ordinary construction.

To this end the invention consists in the novel construction andarrangement of the several parts, as will be hereinafter morespecifically described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is had and which fullyillustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my invention.Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the wax-tank and thread-holder, and Fig.3 is a detail showing the attachment of the wax-box to the shank of thehorn.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

In the drawings, the letter A represents the shank of an ordinaryrotating horn, and B the horn,which is secured to the forward end andupper part thereof at an angle of about fortyfive degrees; or said hornmaybe formed integrally with the shank.

O is a vertical rotating spindle upon which ball of thread, a, which ispassed out through a hole made in the top at the edge of the box. Thefastening of this end of the ball of thread which the box contains issimply for convenience in retaining this end fastened to keep fromlosing it. The other end of the ball of thread a is passed up in the boxand out through a hole made in the center of thetop of the box and overthe top or cover downwardly into a quadrilateral wax-tank, E, having ajacket surrounding it, which is heated by means of a lamp for heatingand melting the wax contained in said tank. This tank E, with itsjacket, is secured to the side and rear end of the shank A of the horn Bby means of a bifurcated metallic strip, J, the bifurcated ends jj ofwhich being nailed or screwed to the tank E upon one side, the mainportion of the strip J embracing the shank A and securing it in asimilar manner as the bifurcated ends of the stri pare secured to thetank E.

At the right-hand corner, in front of the tank E,an opening is madebetween the top of .the tank E and cover E, the latter being raised forthat purpose, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings. Thecourse taken by the thread a after it enters the wax-tank E is clearlyshown by means of arrows represented in the figure above referred to,said thread a passing around a number of hooks,which will be hereinafterexplained, secured to the bot tom of the tank E and disposed at eachcorner of the same, the front portion of the tank E being partiallybroken away for displaying the movement of the thread through the meltedwax.

Rigidly secured to the bottom of the tank by means of hangers h h is atray, H, for bolding the lamp for heating the outside wall or jacket ofthe tank and melting the wax contained therein preparatory to waxing thegles in its movement of about forty-five degrees upon its entrance intoand its exit from the wax-tank E to and through a hexagonalstripper-plug, I, located and projecting from the upper and left-handcorner of the tank E, from whence it passes onto a tension-truck,G,journaled in standards 9, secured in any suitable manner to the upperpart and forward end of the shank A of the horn B. From thistension-truck G it is carried up through the horn B and passes outthrough the smaller end or top of the horn, where it is fed to the nee-I E, having the wall or jacket surrounding the same, andhooks g,disposed in the corners of said tank, and around which the thread ispassed in horizontal and angular manner from the thread-box D onentering the tank, and passing out therefrom through thestripperplug I,perforations e e in the jacket, and loose cover E, to allow the threadto enter the tank, all constructed, arranged, and operated as set forth.

3. The combination, with the horn B,shank A, and vertical rotatingspindle O, of the thread-box D, wax-tank E, constructed as descibed andprovided with a depending tray, I, for holding thelamp, the standards 9,having the tension-truck G journaled in their upper ends, allconstructed, arranged, and operated as herein set forth, and for thepurposes specified.

In testimony whereof I affiX'my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIDNEY A. ALLEN.

YVitnesses:

GEORGE G. WING, L. W. ATTWOOD.

